Ada cadet earns unlimited pilot rating in Army aviation
First Lieutenant Frank R. Crabtree, Ada native, now flies a four engine bomber in the Canal Zone. He recently earned the unlimited pilot rating and began rapid ascent in Army aviation since enlisting in 1940. His brother Jean crabtree is nearing commission. Russell H. Russell of Ada joins Marine Force as machine gun instructor in San Diego.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank R. Crabtree
U. S. Army
Frank
Army
Mabel Crabtree
East Fifteenth
Wyley Ernest Crabtree
Canal Zone
Air Corps
Spartan
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Ada
Oklahoma University
East Central College
Jean Crabtree
Richard H. Russell
Claude Russell
East Tenth
W. Leon Brown
Wichita Falls
Tex
2Nd Scout Co
Fleet Marine Force
U. S. Marine Base
San Diego
Calif
Russell
Rofs
Marine Corps
Leon Brown
Sheppard Field
Texas
Ada Corporal Named for Officer Candidate School
Cpl Ralph P. Watson of Ada is chosen among candidates to attend Officer's Candidate School. After several months of training he will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
Ralph P. Watson
Ada
United States Army
Oklahoma Scrape Rubber Drive Surges Toward Quota
Volunteer crews in Oklahoma push to meet war effort targets by collecting scrap rubber. Stations report heaps of old tires hoses and other items while counties stage contests and volunteers canvass neighborhoods to boost pounds toward the quota. Farm families, city warehouses and youths contribute sizable loads as officials urge broader participation to keep gasoline rationing at bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Oklahoma
Mid-West
Okmulgee
Guthrie
C. E. Siegenthaler
Muskogee
el Reno
Pittsburgh
Oklahoma City
Charles T. Cameron
Stillwater
U. S. Department Agriculture
Two Sub Blows Sink Merchant Ships in Caribbean
On the East Coast port June 17 a naval craft arrived with 4 survivors from two ships, one Honduran flagged and the other Panama flagged. Forty-one seamen died, including two navy gun crew members. The first ship was sunk May 31 with 17 known dead, while 19 clung to rafts for two weeks before rescue. The second ship, torpedoed June 6, left 24 dead and 35 survivors to drift six days. Skippers Capt Kerr and Capt Strandly perished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caribbean
Anama
Hope
Richard C. DeWeise
Asheville
N. C
Ferman C. Cooper
Grantville
Davis B. Kerr
Yonkers
N. Y
Martin Strandly
Amsterdam
Holland
Tetanus Fatal To Oklahoma Artist
Mrs. William H. Bishop 26, Tulsa and Nowata artist, died from tetanus after a minor injury from a car door accident two weeks earlier in Nowata. She was treated at a local hospital. the Bishops had recently moved from Tulsa to Nowata. her husband is a civil engineer for an oil company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pawhuska
Okla
William H. Bishop
Tulsa
Nowata
Bishop
Wood On Verge Of Comeback To Aid Anti Sub Drive
Washington June 17 SP In a war of metals wood gains a role in building 1,000 small patrol crafts to combat submarines and guard coastwise shipping. Vinson says most small vessels will be wood to cut costs and speed builds while metal is reserved for carrier and bigger ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood
Washington
Vinson
D-Ga
House Naval Committee
Midway Island
Coral Seas
Great Lakes
Naval Committee
National Jaycee Convention Opens in Dallas
The National Jaycee Convention opened in Dallas with sessions discussing war production impacts on business and post war industry. A Texas Junior Chamber event featured Commander James Stahlman urging aggressive actions against Germany and Japan as part of wartime policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Junior Chamber of Commerce
William Shepherd
Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce
James G. Stahlman
Nashville
Tenn
Germany
StahIlman
Southern Division
Nashville Banner
Jaycees
Santa Claus
Gandhi civil disobedience dangers in wartime India
The article warns that Gandhi's civil disobedience strategy could trigger violence and disrupt the war effort in Hindustan. It notes past movements caused disorder, questions whether non-violence can be universal today, and fears a Japa nese invasion or war industry disruption if the program spreads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Hindustan
Axis
Gandhi
Gandhi’s World Clash Prospect Stirs British Response
Observers in New Delhi doubt Gandhi’s boast of stirring the whole world. They fear a deliberate clash with Britain could trigger jail, hunger strike, and widespread attention. American readers weigh the speculation.
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New Delhi
Gandhi
America
Army Air Force unit profiles leadership during early deployment
NUMBER FOUR describes an American air detachment in its first two weeks of operations. The article lists the unit commander Col. H A Halverson of Boone Iowa and second in command Lieut Col George McGuire of Coffeyville Kansas, with staff Majors Paul Davis, John Payne and Captains Francis Rang, John Wilkinson, and James Sibert.
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Java
India
H. A. Halverson
Boone
Iowa
Kalberer
George McGuire
Coffeyville
Kansas
Paul Davis
Atlanta
John Payne
Austin
Texas
Francis B. Rang
Albuquerque
N.M
John W. Wilkinson
Burnside
James W. Sibert
Indianapolis
Tex Carleton quits major leagues for factory life
Tex Carleton the former major league pitcher, after a no hit game in 1940 and later coaching, leaves baseball to work at Consolidated Aircraft in Texas, citing a wish for peace and a paid home. He directs the intra plant athletic program and declines playing to avoid more work. A second item reports a burned body found in a Brooklyn trunk with tire marks and evidence of foul play.
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Texas
Tex Carleton
Tex
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation Texas
Army
Carleton
Texas Christian University
Texarkana
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Montreal
Ball Park
Consolidated
New York
Samuel E. Marten
Germans call up Baltic men for year of labor service
Bern announces that Germany has mobilized all men aged 21 to 35 in Latvia Estonia and Lithuania for a year of labor service. The three Baltic states, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, are now occupied by German forces.
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Bern
Switzerland
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Germany
Berlin
Baltic States
Tussia
War Worker Dad of 1942 Chosen from Detroit
Arthur S. Ash, Detroit aircraft toolmaker, named Yankee Doodle Daddy for 1942 by the national father’s day committee. He has two sons in the army, a wife and three other children, and his family buys war stamps and bonds while Detroit workers push war materials. Ash travels to Washington to meet the manpower administrator and urges fathers to send gifts and letters to troops.
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New York
Arthur S. Ash
Detroit Aircraft
America
Excello Aircraft Corporation
Detroit
Ash
Herman
Seattle
Albert
Camp Chaffee
Arkansas
Dexter Boulevard
Airmen Drive Italian Fleet From Central Mediterranean
British and American air forces battered an Italian squadron in the central Mediterranean preventing contact with the Tobruk convoy. Official reports call the operation a limited success as convoys delivered supplies to Balta and Tobruk at notable cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mediterranean
United States Army
RAF
Balta
Tobruke
United States
Admiralty
Air Ministry
Massa
Tobruk
Mussolini
Pacific
Middle East
Malta
Russian rubber bearing dandelion tested at W S C
In Pullman Washington two varieties of rubber bearing plants will be tested this summer by the agricultural experiment station at Washington State College. The Russian rubber bearing dandelion Taraxacum kok-saghyz arrives from Russia for study. If productive in the state larger seed quantities will be grown next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
U. S
Pullman
Wash
Washington State College
Department of Agriculture
Ok Haghyz
Roosevelt accepts resignation of undersecretary Dempsey
President Roosevelt accepted the resignation of John J. Dempsey the interior undersecretary who has decided to seek election as governor of New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
John J. Dempsey
Interior
New Mexico
Chinese Recapture Hosueh River Port
Chinese troops recaptured the Yangtze river port of Hosueh in a counterattack, driving Japanese invaders into retreat a day after occupation. The Yangtze port in Hupeh was targeted as a key shipping center, with a Japanese defector aiding the assault and prompting the destruction of invasion barracks and warehouses at Linoshang, Hunan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Yangtze River
Hosueh
Yangtze
Hupeh
Japan
Linoshang
Hunan
Santa Fe Seeks Permission to Abandon 85 Mile Line
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon 85.35 miles of line from Boise City Oklahoma to Farley New Mexico. The Elkhart and Santa Fe railway leased by the Santa Fe asked authority to abandon Boise City to Clayton and Mount Dora to Farley New Mexico. The line between Clayton and Mount Dora is operated over Colorado lines. The application cites small traffic volumes as not justifying continued operation.
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Washington
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Inter- State Commerce Commission
Boise City
Okla
Farley N. M
Elkhart and Santa Fe Railway
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Clayton
N. M
Mount Dora
Farley, N. M
Mount Dora the Aitchison
Topeka
Santa Fe
Colorado
Skunk Aids ARP Wardens in New Hampton Test
In New Hampton New Hampshire ARP demolition squad members prepared to warn the public about a simulated bomb during a test air raid but an inquisitive skunk chased people away from the bomb and even forced the guards to retreat from their posts.
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New Hampton, N. H
ARP
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Sgt
Richard Russell
Watson
Pauls Valley
Henrvyetta
Navy
J. J. Economos
Penn State
Lieut. R. Robinson
Alley Oop
C. T. Edwards
Ed Don George
Attu Village
Attu Island
Aleutian Group
U. S. Navy Bureau of Public Relations
Washington, D. C
NEA Telephoto
Detroiter
U.S
Ada News
Hosueh River
Jap Army
By William Ferguson
West Indies
NEA Service
B.C
Carl L. Crook
Asheville, N.C
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